Markers on Park Central Square that show where Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt stood during their shootout might not be accurate. Two bronze discs on the square, placed there in 1975, mark where Hickok and Tutt were believed to have stood – Hickok’s is on the southeast corner.
Local history staff at the Springfield-Greene County Library have uncovered new evidence that Hickok might have actually stood on the southwest corner. The markers are placed 75 yards apart, but library historians believe the men were likely closer than that when they fired at one another, leaving Tutt dead.
Staff looked at records from the 1865 court proceedings uncovered in 1997 by archivist Robert Neumann at the Greene County Archives. They paired those with other period sources to discover the new details…